Tamale Emoji

Food

A steaming, pale yellow corn husk wrapped around a savory tamale. The packaging is partially peeled back to show the cooked masa dough tucked inside, highlighting the handheld nature of this traditional food.

Usage Context

Used to discuss Latin American cuisine, holiday cooking traditions, or casual comfort food. It frequently appears alongside 🌮 or 🌯 when talking about Mexican dining, or when celebrating winter festivities where tamal-making parties are a common social activity.

History

The tamale was added to the Unicode standard in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0. Its inclusion followed a push to represent more diverse global food staples, filling a gap for a dish with deep roots in Mesoamerican culinary history dating back thousands of years.

Details

Glyph

🫔

Unicode

U+1FAD4

Shortcode

:emoji_u1fad4:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDED4;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Food

Subcategory food-prepared

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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